A Dandy does nothing.
Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.
The insatiable thirst for everything that lies beyond, and that life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and naivete, which means the dominance of temperament in the manner, is a gift from God, possessed by very few.